Synonyms of the word renounce


RENOUNCEABANDON - ABDICATE - FORESWEAR - QUIT - REJECT - RELINQUISH - RENOUNCE - REPUDIATE - RESIGN - VACATE

renounce

  • n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
  • v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
  • v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
  • v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
  • v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
  • v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
  • v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

abandon

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
  • v. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
  • v. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to…
  • v. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
  • v. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming…
  • v. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
  • n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation…
  • n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
  • adv. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

abdicate

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
  • v. (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To depose.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
  • v. (transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling…
  • v. (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

foreswear

  • v. Alternative spelling of forswear.

quit

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
  • v. (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
  • v. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to…
  • v. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
  • v. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  • v. (transitive) To leave (a place).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
  • v. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
  • n. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

reject

  • v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
  • v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • n. Something that is rejected.
  • n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

relinquish

  • v. (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.
  • v. (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
  • v. (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
  • v. (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

renounce

  • n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
  • v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
  • v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
  • v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
  • v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
  • v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
  • v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

repudiate

  • v. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
  • v. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
  • v. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
  • v. (intransitive) To be repudiated.

resign

  • v. (transitive) To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
  • v. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.

vacate

  • v. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
  • v. To leave an office or position.
  • v. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
  • v. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural…

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